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Friday, August 14, 2026
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★ Must ReadOpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed

OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.

The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
WIRED AI

OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.

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Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
TechCrunch AI

Built as a post-training variation on Z. ai's open source model GLM-5. 2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.

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★ Must ReadChoosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

Trending on Hacker News with 180 points and 75 comments.

[AINews] How to steal a Reasoning Trace

Speculative Decoding by any other name would distil as sweet

🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery

Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.

★ Must ReadLaguna S 2.1: How Agent Harnesses and Inference Budgets Shape Coding Performance

Testing long-horizon coding performance on DeepSWE and Terminal-Bench 2.

New Series! Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP)

AI by Hand — New Series!

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[AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot

AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet

OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed
Lucas Ropek, TechCrunch AI
Does Google even want to win at AI?
Nilay Patel, The Verge AI
Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
Casey Newton, Platformer